Director - Infrastructure Design Holding Land Estates

Dubai Holding Land Estates oversees a diverse land portfolio strategically located across Dubai’s most sought-after areas. With convenient access to major highways, nearby amenities, and flexible land use options, investors are presented with unique opportunities for development and growth.

Through the centralization of Dubai Holding’s land bank, Dubai Holding Land Estates focuses on large-scale master plans, ensuring alignment with the Dubai 2040 Urban Master Plan, whilst also supporting the business’s commitment to sustainable urban development and strategic land portfolio management.

About the Role:

Infrastructure Strategy for Master Developments

• Support and contribute to the development and implementation of infrastructure strategy and phasing for each master development, under the direction of the Vice President, translating masterplan vision into deliverable Dry Utilities, Wet Utilities, Traffic Engineering, Marine Engineering, and Landscape concepts.
• Drive the technical assessment and integration of future-ready infrastructure technologies, including smart utility systems, sustainable water and energy solutions, and international best practices, ensuring alignment with approved project objectives and infrastructure strategies.
• Coordinate and oversee the planning and design development process to ensure infrastructure proposals comply with applicable Dubai/UAE regulatory requirements, authority standards, and approval frameworks, supporting successful endorsement by RTA, DEWA, Dubai Municipality, and other relevant stakeholders.
• Lead the preparation, management, and technical review of infrastructure design briefs, consultant scopes, and concept-stage deliverables, ensuring consistency with approved development objectives, technical standards, project timelines, and authority approval requirements for Vice President endorsement.
• Manage the technical review and coordination of infrastructure-related submissions across the portfolio, including Value Added Services (VAS), masterplan amendments, and development change requests, providing recommendations to the Vice President and facilitating timely stakeholder alignment and approvals.
• Lead day-to-day coordination with other Dubai Holding verticals (e.g. DHRE, DHI, DHAM) to assess infrastructure requirements, technical risks, capacity constraints, and delivery opportunities at each masterplan stage gate, escalating strategic matters to the Vice President.
• “Ring-fence” agreed infrastructure strategies for final alignment with the Vice-President.

Infrastructure CAPEX Budgets

• Coordinate the preparation of annual CAPEX infrastructure budgets for projects across the DHLE portfolio, working closely with the Developments Teams and the Cost Estimation Team to consolidate estimates for Vice President review and wider business alignment.
• Manage the budget submission and review cycle, preparing consolidated infrastructure budgets, cost drivers, and variance explanations for presentation by, or jointly with, the Vice President for wider alignment with DHLE Development Leads prior to submission to DHLE leadership.
• Track major infrastructure costs deviation from plan for wider alignment on required mitigations plans.

Infrastructure Design Management & Integrated Planning

• Lead the coordinated planning, design management, and integration of all infrastructure disciplines, including Dry Utilities, Wet Utilities, Transportation, Marine Engineering, and Landscape, ensuring alignment with the masterplan vision, development objectives, phasing strategy, and commercial requirements across the DHLE portfolio.
• Direct the review and integration of multidisciplinary infrastructure concepts, working closely with Infrastructure Team Leads to optimize utility networks,…